Gavin has been home less than 24 hours and has already had a massive tantrum. I'm watching all three boys while Lizze is at a family function.  This is really important to her because she needs to spend time with some of her family while she can. Anyway, here's what happened. Gavin and Emmett were playing with a slinky on the steps. While they were playing, the slinky was dropped over the side of the steps and tangled up in the cord for the Christmas tree. Let me just say that I hate the slinky. However, putting my personal disdain for the slinky aside, I fixed it for them once again. I simply asked how the slinky got tangled in the tree.. I explained that no one was in trouble, I just…

Elliott actually seems to have slept pretty well.  Hopefully this will put him in a good mood today.  Lizze has a family function today and so I will be blessed with all 3 boys, by myself and for the entire day. Gavin's actually doing pretty well but he still has to be constantly supervised and that's exhausting. Having said that, today's family function is very important to Lizze so I'll just suck it up and muscle through the day. Again, at least Elliott slept...

In about 15 minutes, Emmett and I will be entering our very first Operation Hope, team wraparound meeting.  This is the meeting that will help to get the ball rolling on our funding petition for Gavin to be placed in residential care. This will be a really small meeting because it will be Dr. Patti, Gavin's teachers and our wraparound coordinator, Shelly. Of course,myself and Emmett will be in attendance. Lizze is actually with Gavin today and won't be able to attend.  I'm also hoping that this will be short and sweet because I'm exhausted from being up with Elliott last night.

One of the big problems with having as much in our plate as we do, is the fact that it's impossible to keep up with everything.  At this exact moment, I'm personally managing almost half a dozen crises.  1) I have everything with Gavin.  2) Then I have everything that's going on with Lizze.  3)We have gravely ill family members. 4) Elliott is seriously struggling with anxiety and his new food allergies.  In fact tonight, despite our best efforts, he came into contact with something that has him breaking out in hives.  I had to make a midnight run to Wally World in order to get him Benadryl to control the reaction.Thankfully it was minor enough that the Benadryl was enough to address the anaphylaxis. 5) We are scheduled to…